the owl and the olive tree

Dream logs, more for my own benefit than anything else, but if you're curious.... One post-magical-apocalypse dark fantasy, one set in a strange valley where the sun has been stolen and kept captive. All relying rather much on dream logic, of course.

( Life and Unlife )

( "The moon is still free, but not for long," she said, "and the sun lies dreaming..." )

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So I've been taking melatonin the past few weeks to help me sleep, and I've been having unusually vivid dreams. (I have no idea if the two are related, but they did start at about the same time.)

I don't usually post about dreams because I don't want to bore people (although the one where I was sent by a female pirate captain to rescue her magically-comatose brother and his dragon from where he had been imprisoned on the centermost of three abandoned empty ships that had been chained together and propelled out into the open ocean... that one was pretty cool), and anyway I have sufficient vivid dreams that I would spam you all, but the unusual vividness of the past few weeks has manifested in my dreaming in different media.

Two nights ago the dream was all in computer game graphics: I saw the whole thing from a 3D point of view, although I identified that one of the sprites was "me," and that was the one I was "controlling," and I had a sense of walking my little sprite around and selecting people an objects to interact with them. It wasn't that I dreamed I was playing a game, though; I had no perception of keyboard or controller, I had no physical sense of a myself apart from the "me" in the game, it was just that I was... experiencing myself from the outside as though I were a game character. (That one was a Bordertown-esque urban fantasy dream.)

Then last night, I dreamed in book format: words, and the kind of mental images I have when I'm reading. (That was a Roaring Twenties fantasy set on a submarine.)

I am curious what will come next. Radio? Manga? Who knows!

I had a dream last night that was very anime-like in its style and outline, at least from my not-hugely-knowledgeable-about-anime point of view. The moral of this story: do not watch Excel Saga before bed. The whole thing was in an anime/manga-type art style, full-color, with an actual (if rather silly and very cliche) plot. I honestly can't remember if I was dreaming it in English or with subtitles.

( My anime dream )